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Arthrostylis aphylla

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Arthrostylis aphylla R.Br.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Fimbristylis aphylla (R.Br.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (4), Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), Metcalfe_2020_1 (7), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (1), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Schmidt_2003 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 59 records in 17 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (5); herb (4); tussock (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Lord_1997; Metcalfe_2020_1; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); tufted (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyynnnnnyy (1); yyyyyynynyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 7.67 mg/g (7-9 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.27 {delta}[ppth] (-28.34--28.12 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.8 mg (1.8-1.8 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.53 m (0.2-1 m) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Schmidt_20031119S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Metcalfe_2020_177D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
ATRP_202044F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Lord_199733J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Stephens_202112R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
NTH_202311D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
eFLOWER_Dun_202211L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.